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Eight months after it premiered on Amazon Prime Instant Video, the long-awaited third series of Ripper Street comes to BBCOne tonight. This comes after the Internet giant struck a deal with Aunty Beeb to save the critically-acclaimed series, but why was it axed in the first place? Lead star, Matthew Macfadyen isn’t giving many clues: “I…

Happy Independence Day, America! Looking back on Doctor Who’s history with the Land of Opportunity, some particular milestones and great moments happen to stand out above the rest. David Letterman once asked John Cleese how he had celebrated the recent Fourth of July, to which the City of Death cameo guest drolly remarked, ‘no, we…

Ah yes! It’s you! I remember you. Yes, please do come closer. I won’t bite. Unless I don’t like you. It’s Monday, isn’t it? You want to shake off those Monday Blues? Hmm. Well, okay, let me tell you all about what’s going on in the Doctor Who world. What’s that, you just came here looking…

The Doctor’s Wife scribe, and well-respected novelist, Neil Gaiman has spoken to fellow author, Kazuo Ishiguro, about genre boundaries. Ishiguro’s new book, The Buried Giant, prompted the discussion, with the pair debating whether it’s fantasy or not, and if these genre categories have any meaning. “I don’t have a problem with marketing categories,” Kazuo says, “but…

In an interesting interview with the BBC Writer’s Room, writer, Toby Whithouse spoke about the continuing appeal of writing Doctor Who. In past years, Whithouse has written a number of popular episodes including School Reunion and The God Complex, but his last effort was 2012’s A Town Called Mercy. Fortunately, he’s back with a two-parter, his first story for Peter Capaldi’s…

It looks like Doctor Who is once more returning to Spain! Spain does offer some incredible vistas, so it’s good to see the show going overseas again. Director of Photography, Ali Asad, let the cat out of the bag via Twitter, stating: “Going to Spain on a location recce for the DR” – DR being code…

These are the kind of things we do well. Taking an offhand remark or a salient moment from an episode of Doctor Who and then spin it out into a fan theory that is both engaging and convincing as well as over-eager and easily dismissed; and this one, from What Culture is a doozy: Did…